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Ryan Bare

Research Associate, Hydrology and Watersheds

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Ryan Bare is a Research Associate at HARC under the Hydrology and Watersheds program, and is currently enrolled in the Water Management and Hydrological Science doctoral program at Texas A&M University. He holds a M.S in Marine Resource Management from Texas A&M University at Galveston where he studied temporal and spatial trends of a water quality indicator bacterium in the Coastal Health and Estuarine Microbiology lab. He received his B.S. in Environmental Science with a concentration in Marine and Coastal Resources from Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi. At HARC, he focuses on sustainable water management, watershed protection and the water quality impacts of developing coastal communities.

The Galveston Bay Foundation (GBF) and the Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) released the results of the 2018 Galveston Bay Report Card, a citizen-driven, science-based grading system supported by Houston Endowment and the EPA Gulf of Mexico Program.

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